E-Government: Towards Electronic Democracy, International Conference, TCGOV 2005 Bolzano, Italy, March 2-4, 2005 Proceedings

by Hutter, Dieter; Gamper, Johann; Polasek, Wolfgang; Wimmer, Maria A.; Tcgov 200 (2005 Bolzano, Italy)

• ISBN13: 9783540250166
• ISBN10: 3540250166
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-08-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on E-Government, TCGOV 2005, held in Bolzano, Italy in March 2005. The 28 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 92 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on e-democracy: improving citizen participation and policy making, e-democracy: experiences from different countires, political and societal implications, security for e-government services, semantic Web technologies, architectures for government application integration, case studies for government application integration, decision support systems, managerial and financial aspects of e-government projects, and e-procurement.

Table of Contents

e-Democracy: Improving Citizen Participation and Policy Making
Using Weblogs to Support Local Democracy
Ann Macintosh, Andy McKay-Hubbard, Danae Shell	1	(12)
Web-Based Tools for Policy Evaluation
Lasse Berntzen, Marte Winsvold	13	(12)
Can Online Map-Based Applications Improve Citizen Participation?
Renate Steinmann, Alenka Krek, Thomas Blaschke	25	(11)
e-Democracy: Experiences from Different Countries
Interactive Tools for e-Democracy: Examples from Switzerland
Jean-Loup Chappelet, Pierre Kilchenmann	36	(12)
"Public Budget Dialogue" - An Innovative Approach to E-Participation
Stefanie Roeder, Annika Poppenborg, Susanne Michaelis, Oliver Märker, Stefan René Salz	48	(9)
Enhancing e-Democracy Via Fiscal Transparency: A Discussion Based on China's Experience
Ling Lan	57	(13)
Political and Societal Implications
Third Way e-Government: The Case for Local Devolution
Ailsa Kolsaker	70	(11)
"Urban Versus Regional Divide: Comparing and Classifying Digital Divide"
Enrico Ferro, Marco Cantamessa, Emilio Paolucci	81	(10)
e-Citizen: Why Waiting for the Governments?
Armando Rech Fitho	91	(9)
Security for e- Government Services
A Zero Knowledge Proof for Subset Selection from a Family of Sets with Applications to Multiparty/Multicandidate Electronic Elections
Tassos Dimitriou, Dimitris Foteinakis	100	(12)
A Protocol for Anonymous and Accurate E-Polling
Danilo Bruschi, Igor Nai Fovino, Andrea Lanzi	112	(10)
Model Driven Security for Inter-organizational Workflows in e-Government
Ruth Breu, Michael Hafner, Barbara Weber, Andrea Novak	122	(12)
Semantic Web Technologies for e-Government
e-Government: A Legislative Ontology for the 'SLAP' Parliamentary Management System
Carmen Costilla, Juan P. Palacios, José Cremades, Jorge Vila	134	(13)
No (e-)Democracy Without (e-)Knowledge
Giovanni M. Sacco	147	(10)
Towards a Semantically-Driven Software Engineering Environment for eGovernment
Dimitris Apostolou, Ljiljana Stojanovic, Tomas Pariente Lobo, Barbara Thoenssen	157	(12)
Architectures for Government Application Integration
Towards Requirements for a Reference Model for Process Orchestration in e-Government
Jeffrey Gortmaker, Marijn Janssen, René W. Wagenaar	169	(12)
A Distributed Architecture for Supporting e-Government Cooperative Processes
Mariangela Contenti, Massimo Mecella, Alessandro Termini, Roberto Baldoni	181	(12)
eGovernment Service Marketplace: Architecture and Implementation
Elena Mugellini, Maria Chiara Pettenati, Omar Abou Khaled, Franco Pirri	193	(12)
Case Studies for Government Application Integration
Towards Building E-Government on the Grid
Ying Li, Minglu Li, Yue Chen	205	(8)
Applying the ISO RM-ODP Standard in E-Government
B. Meneklis, A. Kaliontzoglou, D. Polemi, C. Douligeris	213	(12)
Decision Support Systems
Quixote: Supporting Group Decisions Through the Web
J.A. Rubio, D. Rios Insua, J. Rios, E. Fernandez	225	(10)
UNICAP: Efficient Decision Support for Academic Resource and Capacity Management
Svetlana Vinnik, Marc H. Scholl	235	(12)
A Methodology Framework for Calculating the Cost of e-Government Services
Elias A. Hadzilias	247	(10)
Managerial and Financial Aspects of E-Government Projects
Good Practice in e-Government: Management over Methods?
Lee Anthony Eddowes	257	(11)
Participatory Budget Formation Through the Web
J. Rios, D. Rios Insua, E. Fernandez, J.A. Rivero	268	(9)
On the Transition to an Open Source Solution for Desktop Office Automation
Bruno Rossi, Barbara Russo, Paolo Zuliani, Giancarlo Succi	277	(9)
e-Procurement
Public eProcurement in Action: Policies, Practices and Technologies
Catherine Hardy, Susan P. Williams	286	(12)
An Integrated Approach in Healthcare e-Procurement: The Case-Study of the ASL of Viterbo
Tommaso Federici	298	(13)
Author Index	311